AfDB approves US$10mn equity investment in Phatisa Food Fund

Smart technologies enable food to be grown in the world's harshest climates

The recent opening of the Sahara Forest Project (SFP) launch station outside Aqaba, the Jordan port city, has highlighted the possibility of using some of the world’s harshest landscapes to produce food, fresh water and clean energy

ICRAF, FAO team up to provide cross-sectoral approaches to implement national development goals

In a newly released paper, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) have undertaken a review of broad institutional and stakeholder experiences with a view to advancing cross-sectoral approaches in areas related to agriculture, natural resources and food and nutrition security